clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 02.05.2016 um 18:37 schrieb Bald Eagle:
> > I have always wondered what the big deal about negative values was, since once
> > it gets revolved 180 degrees, it's the positive value.
> >
> > Can the on-curve points simply be redefined to be positive?
> > on_curve[n] = abs(original_curve[n]) ?
> >
> > I could of course, be way off base with this.
>
> And indeed you are, as LanuHum correctly points out ;)
>
> Because this shape...:
>
>     A
>   + |\  /|
>   __| \/ |_____axis
>     | /\ |
>   - |/  \|
>          B
>
> ... is obviously completely different from this one:
>
>     A____B
>   + |    |
>   __|    |_____axis
>     |    |
>   - |____|

Oh, see - what I was thinking was that the WHOLE curve would be processed in
context, which would not lead to your second scenario, but to:

>     A    B
>   + |\  /|
>   __| \/ |_____axis

Which ought to give the same as your first scenario, no?

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